Movie and Showtimes Search
With the Google “movie” operator, you can look for movies by titles, actors, directors, genre, famous lines, plot details and more. In addition, you can find movie theaters and showtimes in your area.
The magical operator is “movie:”. If you key it into the search field (try it: [movie:]) you will get a listing of theaters in your area with showtimes. This is assuming you have already told Google Local your local area; if not, you can do so when prompted. You can also ask Google for showtimes in any area like this [movie: 92101] or [movie: new york, ny].
From this display, you can toggle the listing to display by theater or by movie. You can click on the name of a movie and it will show you every theater in the area that is playing it, along with the times. Clicking showtimes that are links will bring you to a website where you can purchase tickets for the show online. Each movie has a link to the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) page for the movie, where you can find every bit of information you ever wanted to know about it.
If you already know the name of the movie that you wish look up, you can key in the movie: operator followed by the name of the movie. This will go directly to the local showtimes for that movie. Alternatively, you can even just key in the movie name alone. This will sometimes bring up a link to go to the showtimes as the first entry in the search results, like this:
Google can also provide lots of other information for a movie. First, I’ll explain all the ways you can find a movie: You can search by whatever information is part of the title, description or reviews. If the keyword–perhaps title, name of director or some other descriptive word–is found it will display a listing for that movie on the page with a short description, date and the number of reviews associated with it. Here are examples of some ways to find a movie:
It’s a really useful tool when you remember some details of the film, but you can’t remember the title. For example, let’s say that you cannot remember the name of the movie in which the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the higher-rated Russian team. A search of [movie: hockey olympics united states Russian] pulls up the move Miracle, just what you were looking for.
From the resulting list of movies that match your search criteria, you select the movie for which want to pull up the Google movie page. This page will provide a list of the reviews (grouped by positive and negative), the average review score in stars, and a list of frequently mentioned terms in the reviews. Clicking on a review brings you directly to the source web page of the review. to try it out, click Click this link to see a movie review page for the movie Elf.
Yes, there are sites dedicated to showing you information on showtimes and the movies themselves. And, yes, they often have more information. But, as with many of Google’s special searches, there are is nothing faster than the Google way.
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